Yeah I'm sitting here in Brookhaven waiting for the signups to begin. I'm surprised Hapeville got it, but I've also heard the airport had more unused fiber surrounding it that anywhere in the Southeast. So I guess that is why.
Obama wants to make the internet a utility
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I will add this. Making this a utility is IMO the wrong way to go, and adds layers that need not be there. IMO there simply needs to be a separation of classes of companies. If Comcast wants to be both a service provider and a media provider (for lack of better terms) I have no problem with that, but they have to be made to work as separate entities.
Yes, I do. As someone who is in the business of providing internet services, I actually read the FCC document myself to draw my own conclusions:
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-10-201A1_Rcd.pdf
Again IMO, I am not happy with this, but it is better than doing nothing.
hapeville and east point both are getting it (i think college park is too). i was surprised by east point, we are horribly run and our city govt is a joke, but hapeville is actually a well run city. hapeville is humming along pretty good, delta hq is there and now porche's north american hq is there and a lot of smaller stuff is moving in to what has been long vacant commercial space (we are getting a ridiculous deal; about $5+ /sq ft less than comparable space two miles away in east point). a new beer growler store (44 taps) just opened up two doors down from our new office and my buddy is about to open a brewery three blocks away.
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The same commission (FCC) that oversees the telecomm industry is watching this - are you comparing your cell phone / land line to the Obamacare site?
Phone calls today are less expensive and more reliable than they were under Ma-Bell. I dunno about you, but I can't recall the last time my landline was out. And it's exceedingly rare that I drop a call on my cell or fail to have coverage.
Just because the government sucks at a lot of things doesn't means this is a bad thing...
I hope so. That said the two of major players that would be the most likely ones to develop it (Verizon and AT&T) are two of the very companies at the center of the problem. They limit bandwidth by classifying what type of traffic/protocol and what content is being requested.
In fact the wireless broadband providers are covered (differently, but covered none the less) by the new rules.
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Then as your diagram suggests, I don't understand your point. Elucidate if you like; else, meh...
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LOL Gr8hope would almost certainly be the very last person to accept an Obamaphone
obama probably hypnotized him using his secrit muslim ninja powers.LOL Gr8hope would almost certainly be the very last person to accept an Obamaphone
Well they will unless we cede control of the root DNS servers. Different discussion, but the internet is a network of networks. It is decentralized, but there are underpinnings that only the U.S. controls, and I strongly hope we always will.
That said. In this case I trust our FCC a lot more than depending on a foreign based company to provide a service that is free and open (for me that is saying a lot, but it is true). In fact if a "global" service like this happens I would expect it to be provided with a great deal of filtering and blocking to limit dissident content.
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